Choc still Manly

[The Wheel]

 

[globaleagle]

meh

 

[conanu]

Looking to jump back on the bus by the sounds of it. Should have thought about that before he ran his mouth and sh hit canned Toovey, DCE and the rest of the place, he even said Des wasn't really coaching in the glory days it was all Gifty. But to be honest, if he is prepared to forget about it so can I.

 

[manlyfan76]

Nothing to see here from the guy who made parras team of the 2000's or whatever it was

 

[ricardo]

280 odd games and two premierships ... guy's still a Manly legend in my eyes

 

[Spartan Eagle]

Choc is not the sharpest tool in the shed and has said some damaging things about our club. Some may say he has crossed the point of no return. But I still feel that everyone deserves a second chance especially someone who literally busted his body and bled for our great club.

 

[brad]

Hard player for our club but, nahhh a distant memory now.

 

[Ralphie]

He is in the same category as Ribot, Foran and the like. They are dead to me.

 

[Deleted member 26876]

He is in the same category as Ribot, Foran and the like. They are dead to me.

Foran isn’t dead to me simply because you can tell he probably regrets it. Left, hasn’t played good (at least consistently) since.

He has never publically bad mouthed the club, and recall him doing the opposite from time to time. Only hated him in his Eels stint, now it’s just meh

 

[Bearfax]

Watmough was one of our greatest players and helped us to a couple of premierships. Certainly he spat the dummy over certain aspects of Sea Eagles policy, but hardly worthy of permanent exile. His comments were never against the Sea Eagles as a legacy and history. He was just opposed to certain actions by the club at a specific time in its history and was annoyed by DCE's apparent flippancy when DCE was still a kid. We all have differing viewpoints even as a family and certainly Watmough made himself the prodigal son. But he is still family, warts and all and we have much to admire and thank him for.

 

[Eagles2nv]

This story looks like it was written by his real estate agent.

Choc isn't the sharpest tool, he probably forgot he even played for the squeals.

 

[MANLY4LIFE]

GF and i dont mean gran final

 

[globaleagle]

Hard player for our club but, nahhh a distant memory now.

silvertails says it's your birthday!

Or did you just throw in any old date?

I seem to remember doing this with another member some time ago (exactly a year ago? - lol)


If Choc once, just...once... showed 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of remorse for anything he said, then to me it'd be a lot easier to go yay, choc! But even as late as last year he was slamming dce (but still apparently supporting the team).

I don't forget what he did either on the field (but also off). I did a post some years ago when he was getting older; something along the like of:
Run metres: 90
dropped balls: 2. Average opposition metres gained 40 + kick = 60 x 2 = 120.
penalties per game: 2: Opposition meterage: 60 x 2 = 120

Run metres = 90
Run metres cost = 240
Difference = 150 cost to Manly! So why is he here?

- though I think I was miffed with him at the time, lol.


The article sounds like "hey manly, i'm manly selling my manly house so I love manly and please as manly people may be the only ones that can manly afford my manly house then manly manly manly.

 

[frank stokes]

Choc really pi**ed me off in recent years mostly because he couldn't just let shi*t go and stop talking smack about who did what wrong to who (and I suspected he or foz of instigating our salary cap dramas - although i acknowledge that true fault lies with those that signed off on the deals not the whistleblower)...

BUT I have a historical debt to choc for all the times my a*se came off my lounge and my beer showered the floor as I almost involuntarily yelled "WATMOUGH"... tbh by the time choc left it felt like the club was eating itself anyways but choc just needs to stop talking about it and maybe hes ready to let it go... imagine if we could find another edge runner like choc, or gift, or menzies... God we were blessed back then...

 

[maxta]

Disappointed by a few comments after leaving the nest, but the blokes guts and determination on the field were a Massive part of Manly’s recent success.
BK took this bloke under his wing because he could see he would take over as our Enforcer....which he did and was pivotal in the Seaeagles success over a decade.
Do I respect his dumb statements- No
Do I appreciate and respect him spilling his blood and guts all over the field for Manly- Yes .....

 

[Ranga]

Watmough was one of our greatest players and helped us to a couple of premierships. Certainly he spat the dummy over certain aspects of Sea Eagles policy, but hardly worthy of permanent exile. His comments were never against the Sea Eagles as a legacy and history. He was just opposed to certain actions by the club at a specific time in its history and was annoyed by DCE's apparent flippancy when DCE was still a kid. We all have differing viewpoints even as a family and certainly Watmough made himself the prodigal son. But he is still family, warts and all and we have much to admire and thank him for.

Could not agree more, Bear. Well said.
I’d like to think that if he turned up to Brookie to watch a game, the majority response would be ‘Welcome home’.

 

[court83]

I'm sorry, but choc is my fav manly backrower ever besides beaver. If he wanted to get back into the nest at Brooky ide be more than happy to have him working with our juniors..

If des can be welcomed back with open arms after ruining 2011 grandfinal celebrations, absolutely gutting our coaching staff, tried poaching our best players and left the team facing a mountain of cap problems that haunted us for years, then ide say choc can be forgiven for talking a little sh!t about us...

Just my humble opinion

 

[Woodsie]

Choc is a goose ... but he is our goose .... we didn't pay him for his philosophical dissertations ... we paid him to put his body on the line and play football ... and this he did with great distinction .

When he left and when he commented ... as distastful as it was to us .... in his own mind I am sure he was hurt and was acting out of frustration ..... and truth told ... there was **** happening at Manly that upset a lot of people and still does ....

He needs to say a few things and mend a few fences .... but push come to shove I am in the forgiveness camp .... bloke was a home grown legend ...

 

[Woodsie]

silvertails says it's your birthday!

Or did you just throw in any old date?

I seem to remember doing this with another member some time ago (exactly a year ago? - lol)


If Choc once, just...once... showed 0.000000000000000000000000000000000000000000001% of remorse for everything he said, then to me it'd be a lot easier to go yay, choc! But even as late as last year he was slamming dce (but still apparently supporting the team).

I don't forget what he did either on the field (but also off). I did a post some years ago when he was getting older; something along the like of:
Run metres: 90
dropped balls: 2. Average opposition metres gained 40 + kick = 60 x 2 = 120.
penalties per game: 2: Opposition meterage: 60 x 2 = 120

Run metres = 90
Run metres cost = 240
Difference = 150 cost to Manly! So why is he here?

- though I think I was miffed with him at the time, lol.


The article sounds like "hey manly, i'm manly selling my manly house so I love manly and please as manly people may be the only ones that can manly afford my manly house then manly manly manly.

Go back to bed .... you grumpy bum .....

 

[manlyfan76]

Anthony's words and actions are well documented. If he wants to take thise words back then id consider him being Manly again, but if he stands by them then he can F Off.
And yes id tell him that to his face.